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Cyclic redundancy check
A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to raw data. Blocks of data entering these systems get a short "check value" attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38838 |
Palatinate (region)
The Palatinate (; Palatine German: "Palz"), historically also Rhenish Palatinate (), is a region in southwestern Germany. It occupies roughly the southernmost quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate ("Rheinland-Pfalz"), covering an area of with about 1.4 million inhabitants. Its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38849 |
Finglas
Finglas (; ) is a northwestern outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies close to Junction 5 of the M50 motorway, and the N2 road. Nearby suburbs include Glasnevin and Ballymun; Dublin Airport is 7 km to the north. Finglas lies mainly in the postal district of Dublin 11.
Finglas is the core of a civil parish i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38851 |
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
As part of an overall French plan to combi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38855 |
National Botanic Gardens (Ireland)
The National Botanic Gardens (Irish: "Garraithe Náisiúnta na Lus") is a botanical garden, located in Glasnevin, 5 km north-west of Dublin city centre, Ireland. The 19.5 hectares are situated between Glasnevin Cemetery and the River Tolka where it forms part of the river's floodplain.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38856 |
Lever
A lever ( or ) is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or fulcrum. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, load and effort, the lever is divided into three types. Also a leverage is a mechanical advantage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38857 |
Zwinger (Dresden)
The Zwinger (, ) is a palatial complex with gardens in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, it is one of the most important buildings of the Baroque period in Germany. Along with the Frauenkirche, the Zwinger is the most famous architectural monument of Dresden.
The n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38860 |
Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk
The Sikorsky MH-60G/HH-60G Pave Hawk is a twin-turboshaft engine helicopter in service with the United States Air Force. It is a derivative of the UH-60 Black Hawk and incorporates the US Air Force PAVE electronic systems program. The HH-60/MH-60 is a member of the Sikorsky S-70 family.
The M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38861 |
Motorola 68010
The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1982 as the successor to the Motorola 68000. It fixes several small flaws in the 68000, and adds a few features.
The 68010 was pin-compatible with the 68000, but was not 100% software compatible. Some of the differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38863 |
Bill of Rights 1689
The Bill of Rights 1689, also known as the Bill of Rights 1688, is a landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown. It received the Royal Assent on 16 December 1689 and is a restatement in statutory fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38867 |
Flax
Flax (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus "Linum" in the family Linaceae. It is a food and fiber crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world. Textiles made from flax are known in Western countries as linen, and are traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38869 |
Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track. There are two forms of greyhound racing, track racing (normally around an oval track) and coursing. Track racing uses an artificial lure (now based on a windsock) that travels ahead of the dogs on a rail ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38871 |
Bessarabia
Bessarabia (; ; ; , "Bessarabiya"; ; ", Bessarabiya"; , "Besarabiya") is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Ukrainian Budjak region covering the southern coas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38872 |
Raoult's law
Raoult's law ( law) is a law of thermodynamics established by French chemist François-Marie Raoult in 1887. It states that the partial pressure of each component of an ideal mixture of "liquids" is equal to the vapour pressure of the pure component multiplied by its mole fraction in the mixture. In conseq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38873 |
Riccardo Patrese
Riccardo Gabriele Patrese (born 17 April 1954) is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from to . For 19 years, he held the record for the most Grand Prix starts.
He became the first Formula One driver to achieve 200 Grand Prix starts when he appeared at the 1990 British Grand Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38875 |
Panettone
Panettone (pronounced ; ) is an Italian type of sweet bread originally from Milan (in the local Milanese dialect it is called , ), usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe as well as in Latin America, Eritrea, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38879 |
Via Monte Napoleone
Via Monte Napoleone, also spelled Via Montenapoleone, is an upscale shopping street in Milan, Italy, and Europe's most expensive street (2018). It is famous for its ready-to-wear fashion and jewelry shops, and for being the most important street of the Milan fashion district known as the "Quadrilat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38880 |
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; , ; , from ) is a city of southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old. Pale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38881 |
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo). During the Second World War, Zhukov oversaw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38888 |
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, king of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, king of Germany from 1411, king of Bohemia from 1419, king of Italy from 1431, and Holy Roman emperor from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38889 |
Natural science
Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatability of findings are used to try to ensure the validity of scientific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38890 |
Chat room
The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology ranging from real-time online chat and online interaction with strangers (e.g., online forums) to fully immersive graphical s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38892 |
Border Gateway Protocol
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. BGP is classified as a path-vector routing protocol, and it makes routing decisions based on paths, network policies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38893 |
Abolitionism
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, was the movement to end slavery. This term can be used both formally and informally. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free.
King Charles I of Spain, usually know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38894 |
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV (, , ; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378), born Wenceslaus, was the first King of Bohemia to become Holy Roman Emperor. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the Czech House of Přemyslid from his mother's side; he emphasized the latter due to his l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38895 |
Innamorati
"Gli Innamorati" (, meaning "The Lovers") were stock characters within the theatre style known as commedia dell'arte, which appeared in 16th century Italy. In the plays, everything revolved around the Lovers in some regard. These dramatic and posh characters were present within "commedia" plays for the sole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38897 |
Slapstick
Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders.
The term arises from a device developed for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38898 |
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society (), founded in 1950, was one of the earliest LGBT (gay rights) organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago's Society for Human Rights. Communist and labor activist Harry Hay formed the group with a collection of male friends in Los Angeles to protect an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38899 |
Scenario
In the performing arts, a scenario (, ; from Italian: "that which is pinned to the scenery", ) is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events. In the "commedia dell'arte" it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play, and was literally pinned to the back ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38900 |
Brown
Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue. In the RGB color model used to project colors onto television screens and computer monitors, brown is made by combining red and green, in specific proport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38902 |
Proserpina
Proserpina ( , ) or Proserpine ( ) is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were combined from those of Libera, an early Roman goddess of wine, and the Greek Persephone and Demeter, goddesses of grain and agriculture. The originally Roman goddess Libera was daughter of the agricultural go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38908 |
Juan García Esquivel
Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often simply known as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38910 |
Kronborg
Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and has been added to UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list (2000).
The castle is situated on the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38927 |
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is one of the brightest objects visible to the naked eye in the night sky, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38930 |
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African-American author of a book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38932 |
Montanism
Montanism , known by its adherents as the New Prophecy, was an early Christian movement of the late 2nd century, later referred to by the name of its founder, Montanus.
Montanism held similar views about the basic tenets of Christian theology to those of the wider Christian Church, but it was labelled a her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38933 |
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto III (June/July 980 – 23 January 1002) was Holy Roman Emperor from 996 until his early death in 1002. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto III was the only son of the Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu.
Otto III was crowned as King of Germany in 983 at the age of three, shortly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38935 |
Yankee
The term "Yankee" and its contracted form "Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States; its various senses depend on the context. Outside the United States, "Yank" is used informally to refer to any American, including Southerners. Within the Southern United States, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38936 |
Dark Angel (American TV series)
Dark Angel is an American science fiction drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on October 3, 2000. Created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, it stars Jessica Alba in her breakthrough role. Set in 2019, the series chronicles the life of Max Guevara (Alba), a gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45929 |
Spirit possession
Spirit possession is the supposed control of a human body by spirits, aliens, demons or gods. The concept of spirit possession exists in many religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Haitian Vodou, Wicca, Hinduism, Islam and Southeast Asian and African traditions. In a 1969 study funded by the Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45936 |
General equilibrium theory
In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an overall general equilibrium. General equilibriu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45938 |
Primary color
A set of primary colors is a set of colorants or colored lights that can be combined in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors. This is the essential method used in applications that are intended to elicit the perception of diverse sets of color, e.g. electronic displays, color printing, and painti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45939 |
Swastika
The swastika or sauwastika as a character, 卐 ("right-facing" or "clockwise") or 卍 ("left-facing" or "counterclockwise") respectively is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon in the cultures of Eurasia. It is used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45943 |
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River (; ; , meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. The Saint Lawrence River flows in a roughly north-easterly direction, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45948 |
Minimal deterrence
In nuclear strategy, minimal deterrence (also called minimum deterrence) is an application of deterrence theory in which a state possesses no more nuclear weapons than is necessary to deter an adversary from attacking. Pure minimal deterrence is a doctrine of no first use, holding that the only miss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45951 |
Mutual assured destruction
Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45958 |
Nuclear strategy
Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons.
As a sub-branch of military strategy, nuclear strategy attempts to match nuclear weapons as means to political ends. In addition to the actual use of nuclear weapons whether in the bat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45959 |
Cloaking device
A cloaking device is a hypothetical or fictional stealth technology that can cause objects, such as spaceships or individuals, to be partially or wholly invisible to parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. However, over the entire spectrum, a cloaked object scatters more than an uncloaked object.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45960 |
Analytic language
In linguistic typology, an analytic language is a language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of "helper" words (particles, prepositions, etc.) and word order, as opposed to utilizing inflections (changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence). For... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45963 |
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with son... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45964 |
No first use
No first use (NFU) refers to a pledge or a policy by a nuclear power not to use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare unless first attacked by an adversary using nuclear weapons. This concept is also applied to chemical and biological warfare in case of the NFU policy of India.
China declared its NFU pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45966 |
Richard Burton
Richard Burton, (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45967 |
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top-ten hits in the mid-1960s. He has toured regularly, with appearances in Las Vegas (1967–2011). Jones's voice has been described by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45968 |
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? – May 10, 1977) was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway. Crawford then signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45969 |
Pentecost
The Christian holiday of Pentecost, which is celebrated the 49th day (the seventh Sunday) after Easter Sunday, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45971 |
Whatì
Whatì (; from the Dogrib language meaning "Marten Lakes"), officially the "Tłı̨chǫ Community Government of Whatì" is a First Nations community in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. Whatì is located by Lac La Martre, about northwest of the territorial capital of Yellowknife.
With rich a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45975 |
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. It also set Texas's western and northern borders ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45976 |
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974) is an English fashion designer and former singer. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Posh Spice. With over 85 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45979 |
George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. Michael sold over 80 million records worldwide making him on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45985 |
Grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past. The name comes from the paradox's common description: a person travels to the past and kills his or her own grandfather before the conception of his or her father or mother, which prevents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45990 |
Building
A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45995 |
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multirole combat jet, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) and Northrop (now part of Northrop Grumman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45998 |
Gecko (software)
Gecko is a browser engine developed by Mozilla. It is used in the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, and many other projects.
Gecko is designed to support open Internet standards, and is used by different applications to display web pages and, in some cases, an application's user interfac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45999 |
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Alexandru Ioan Cuza (, or Alexandru Ioan I, also anglicised as Alexander John Cuza; 20 March 1820 – 15 May 1873) was Prince of Moldavia, Prince of Wallachia, and later "Domnitor" (Ruler) of the Romanian Principalities. He was a prominent figure of the Revolution of 1848 in Moldavia. He initiated a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46000 |
Browser engine
A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interactive visual representation on a user's device.
A browser engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46001 |
Pax Americana
Pax Americana (Latin for "American Peace", modeled after "Pax Romana", "Pax Britannica") is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later the world beginning around the middle of the 20th century, thought to be caused by the preponderance of power enjoyed by the Unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46002 |
Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime (CLR), the virtual machine component of Microsoft .NET framework, manages the execution of .NET programs. Just-in-time compilation converts the managed code (compiled intermediate language code), into machine instructions which are then executed on the CPU of the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46003 |
Common Intermediate Language
Common Intermediate Language (CIL), formerly called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) or Intermediate Language (IL), is the intermediate language binary instruction set defined within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification. CIL instructions are executed by a CLI-compat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46004 |
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It also includes the freedom to change one's religion or beliefs and to be absent of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46006 |
Moldavia
Moldavia (, or (in Romanian Latin alphabet), literally "The Moldavian Country"; in old Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical region and former principality in Central and Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially independent and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46007 |
Gary Numan
Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), better known as Gary Numan, is an English singer, musician, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He entered the music industry as the frontman of the new wave band Tubeway Army. After releasing two albums with the band, he released his debut solo album "The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46014 |
Psion Organiser
The Psion Organiser was the brand name of a range of pocket computers developed by the British company Psion in the 1980s. The Organiser I (launched in 1984) and Organiser II (launched in 1986) had a characteristic hard plastic sliding cover protecting a 6×6 keyboard with letters arranged alphabeticall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46015 |
Psion (company)
Psion was a designer and manufacturer of mobile handheld computers for commercial and industrial applications. The company was headquartered in London, England with major operations in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and additional company offices in Europe, the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46016 |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46023 |
Abraham Robinson
Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46024 |
Omnipotence paradox
The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term "omnipotent". The paradox arises, for example, if one assumes that an omnipotent being has no limits and is capable of realizing any outcome, even logically contradictory ideas such as creating square c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46025 |
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia ( , literally "The Romanian Country"; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia is traditionally divided into two sections, Muntenia (Greater Wal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46026 |
Gerhard Gentzen
Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen (November 24, 1909 – August 4, 1945) was a German mathematician and logician. He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics, proof theory, especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus. He died of starvation in a Soviet prison camp in Prague in 1945, ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46027 |
Wisdom
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46029 |
Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including "The Demolished Man", winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 195... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46034 |
Porpoise
Porpoises are a group of fully aquatic marine mammals, similar in appearance to a dolphin, all of which are classified under the family Phocoenidae, parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales). There are seven extant species of porpoise. They are small toothed whales that are very closely related to oceanic dolphin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46037 |
Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40359 |
Dosimeter
A radiation dosimeter is a device that measures dose uptake of external ionizing radiation. It is worn by the person being monitored when used as a personal dosimeter, and is a record of the radiation dose received. Modern electronic personal dosimeters can give a continuous readout of cumulative dose and cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40363 |
Electrometer
An electrometer is an electrical instrument for measuring electric charge or electrical potential difference. There are many different types, ranging from historical handmade mechanical instruments to high-precision electronic devices. Modern electrometers based on vacuum tube or solid-state technology ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364 |
Galvanometer
A galvanometer is an electromechanical instrument used for detecting and indicating an electric current. A galvanometer works as an actuator, by producing a rotary deflection (of a "pointer"), in response to electric current flowing through a coil in a constant magnetic field. Early galvanometers were not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40365 |
Analog-to-digital converter
In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement such as an electronic device ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40367 |
John Thaw
John Edward Thaw, (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series "Inspector Morse", "Redcap", "The Sweeney", "Home to Roost" and "Kavanagh QC".
Thaw was born in Gorton, Manchester, to working-class ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40372 |
Space technology
Space technology is technology developed by space science or the aerospace industry for use in spaceflight, satellites, or space exploration. Space technology includes spacecraft, satellites, space stations, and support infrastructure, equipment, and procedures and space warfare. Space is such a novel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40375 |
Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen (born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the list of multiple medalists behind Marit Bjørgen who has won 15 medals. He is also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40377 |
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada () was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763. Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40389 |
Design Patterns
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (1994) is a software engineering book describing software design patterns. The book was written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, with a foreword by Grady Booch. The book is divided into two parts, with the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40394 |
Montana-class battleship
The "Montana"-class battleships were planned as successors of the for the United States Navy, to be slower but larger, better armored, and with superior firepower. Five were approved for construction during World War II, but changes in wartime building priorities resulted in their cancellation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40396 |
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his death by assassination six and a half months later. He is the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the preside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40400 |
1876 United States presidential election
The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. It was one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history, and is known for being the catalyst for the end of Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40402 |
George Whitefield
George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also spelled Whitfield, was an English Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement.
Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in 1732. There he joined the "Holy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40405 |
Sweyn Forkbeard
Sweyn Forkbeard (; Old Norse: "Sveinn Haraldsson tjúguskegg"; Danish: "Svend Tveskæg"; 960 – 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark from 986 to 1014. He was the father of King Harald II of Denmark, King Cnut the Great and Queen Estrid Svendsdatter.
In the mid-980s, Sweyn revolted against his father, Har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40406 |
Harold Fürth
Harold Fürth (January 13, 1930 – February 21, 2002) was an Austrian-American physicist who was a pioneer in leading the American efforts to harness thermonuclear fusion for the generation of electricity. He died of a heart ailment on 21 February 2002.
Fürth emigrated to the United States in 1941, and gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40407 |
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles ( or ), sometimes known as ("islands of the strangers") or the Long Isle/Long Island (), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland. The islands are geographically coextensive with , one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. They form part of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40410 |
Mnemonic
A mnemonic (, the first "m" is not pronounced) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory. Mnemonics make use of elaborative encoding, retrieval cues, and imagery as specific tools to encode any given information in a way ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40411 |
License
A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).
A license can be granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement between those parties. A shorthand definition of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40412 |
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