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Perfectae Caritatis
Perfectæ caritatis, subtitled as the Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life, is the document issued by the Second Vatican Council which deals specifically with institutes of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church. One of the shorter documents of the council, the decree was ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40413 |
Optatam Totius
Optatam totius, the Decree on Priestly Training, is a document which was produced by the Second Vatican Council. Approved by a vote of 2,318 to 3 of the bishops assembled at the council, the decree was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on 28 October 1965. The Latin title means "desired renewal of the whole [c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40414 |
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (also spelled "Point de Sable", "Point au Sable", "Point Sable", "Pointe DuSable"; before 1750 – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Indigenous settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the "Founder of Chicag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40415 |
Battle of Fort Dearborn
The Battle of Fort Dearborn (sometimes called the Fort Dearborn Massacre) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois (at that time, wilderness in the Illinois Territory). Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40416 |
Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed by troops under Captain John Whistler and named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War. The original fort was destroyed following the Battle of Fort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40417 |
Carl Sandburg
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40418 |
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Port of Dover. The surro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40419 |
John Hancock Center
875 North Michigan Avenue, formerly the John Hancock Center, is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the Magnificent Mile district, its name was changed to 875 North Michigan Avenue on February 12, 2018. However, despite this, the building is still c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40420 |
Waltzing Matilda
"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".
The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40429 |
Molde
Molde () is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord.
The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Molde which is also the administrative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40433 |
History of Barbados
Barbados was inhabited by its indigenous peoples—Arawaks and Caribs—prior to the European colonization of the Americas in the 16th century. Barbados was briefly claimed by the Portuguese from 1532 to 1620. The island was English and later a British colony from 1625 until 1966. Since 1966, it has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435 |
Conrad III of Germany
Conrad III (; ; 1093 or 1094 – 15 February 1152) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was from 1116 to 1120 Duke of Franconia, from 1127 to 1135 anti-king of his predecessor King Lothair III and from 1138 until his death in 1152 King in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Duke Frederick I of Swabia a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40440 |
Josip Plemelj
Josip Plemelj (December 11, 1873 – May 22, 1967) was a Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. He was the first chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.
Plemelj was born in the village of Bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40441 |
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
The Pilgrims were the English settlers who came to North America on the "Mayflower" and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts. Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatist Puritans, who had fled religious persecution in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40442 |
Ivan Vidav
Ivan Vidav (January 17, 1918 – October 6, 2015) was a Slovenian mathematician.
Ivan Vidav was born in Opčine near Trieste (Slovenian "Trst"), Italy. He was Josip Plemelj's student. Vidav got his Ph.D. under Plemelj's advisory in 1941 at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation "Kleinovi teoremi v te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40443 |
Monterey, California
Monterey (; Ohlone: "") is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it was the capital of Alta California under both Spain and Mexico. During this period, Monterey hosted California's first theater, public buildi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40444 |
1788–89 United States presidential election
The 1788–89 United States presidential election was the first quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788 to Saturday, January 10, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington was unanimously elected for the first of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40449 |
1792 United States presidential election
The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40451 |
1800 United States presidential election
The 1800 United States presidential election was the fourth presidential election. It was held from October 31 to December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40454 |
Monterrey
Monterrey (; ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico. The city is anchor to the Monterrey metropolitan area, the second most productive in Mexico with a GDP (PPP) of US$123 billion, and the third largest with an estimated population of 4,689,601 people as of 2015. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40455 |
Presbyterorum Ordinis
Presbyterorum ordinis, subtitled the "Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests", is one of the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council. On 7 December 1965, the document was promulgated by Pope Paul VI, after an approval vote of 2,390 to 4 among the assembled bishops. The title means "O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40460 |
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, and between Queen's Landing and Congress Parkway. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40461 |
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham, (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the "Beaux-Arts" movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."
A successful Chicago architect, he was selected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40462 |
Halophyte
A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and seashores. The word derives from Ancient Greek ἅλας (halas) 'salt' and φυτόν (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40465 |
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2019, the city's estimated population was 308,096. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40469 |
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; , ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki or Salonica (; , , ), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Adm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40471 |
Baker v. Vermont
Baker v. Vermont, 744 A.2d 864 (Vt. 1999), was a lawsuit decided by Vermont Supreme Court on December 20, 1999. It was one of the first judicial affirmations of the right of same-sex couples to treatment equivalent to that afforded different-sex couples. The decision held that the state's prohibition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40472 |
Berea College
Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College is distinctive among post-secondary institutions for providing free education to students and for having been the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40473 |
Minardi
Minardi was an Italian automobile racing team and constructor founded in Faenza in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans. In 2001, to save the team from folding, Minardi sold it to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40479 |
Benetton Group
Benetton Group S.r.l. is a global fashion brand based in Ponzano Veneto, Italy founded in 1965. Benetton Group has a network of about 5,000 stores worldwide. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Benetton family's holding company Edizione.
In 1965, the Benettons opened their first store in Belluno a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40480 |
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa (, ; 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I, was the Holy Roman Emperor from 2 January 1155 until his death 35 years later. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39699 |
Social contract
In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Social contract arguments typically posit that individuals have consented, either explicitly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39704 |
Edward V of England
Edward V (2 November 1470) succeeded his father, Edward IV, as King of England and Lord of Ireland upon the latter's death on 9 April 1483. Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39709 |
Fertile Crescent
The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, the northeast and Nile valley regions of Egypt, together with the southeastern region of Turkey and the western fringes of Iran. Some authors also include Cyprus.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39715 |
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: "Olympische Sommerspiele 1936"), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: "Spiele der XI. Olympiade"), was an international multi-sport event held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39721 |
Roger Williams
Roger Williams (c. 21 December 1603 – between 27 January and 15 March 1683) was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39731 |
The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children. Considered one of the last of the old-style family sitcoms, the series aired for five seasons and, after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39732 |
Edmund of Abingdon
Saint Edmund of Abingdon (circa 11741240) (also known as Edmund Rich, St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmund of Pontigny, French: St Edme) was an English born prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury. He became a respected lecturer in mathematics, dialectics and theology at the Universities of Paris ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39735 |
Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39736 |
Myles Coverdale
Myles Coverdale, first name also spelt Miles (1488 – 20 January 1569), was an English ecclesiastical reformer chiefly known as a Bible translator, preacher and, briefly, Bishop of Exeter (1551–1553). Regarding his probable birth county, Daniell cites John Bale, author of a sixteenth century scriptorium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39737 |
Confocal
In geometry, confocal means having the same foci: confocal conic sections. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39739 |
Szczerbiec
Szczerbiec () is the coronation sword that was used in crowning ceremonies of most Polish monarchs from 1320 to 1764. It is currently on display in the treasure vault of the Royal Wawel Castle in Kraków as the only preserved piece of the medieval Polish Crown Jewels. The sword is characterized by a hilt dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39740 |
Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates. The stomach has a dilated structure and functions as a vital digestive organ. In the digestive system the stomach is involved in the second phase of digestion, following chew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39747 |
Marching band
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, often of a military-style, that includes an associated organization'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39748 |
Cartoon Network Studios
Cartoon Network Studios is an American animation studio owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Located in Burbank, California, the studio primarily produces and develops animated programs and shorts for Cartoon Network. In the 2010s, their programs began to expand into their sister companies Adul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39749 |
Colour guard
In military organizations, a colour guard (or color guard) is a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of regimental colours. This duty is so prestigious that the colour is generally carried by a young officer (Ensign), while experienced non-commissioned officers (colour sergeants) are assigned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39750 |
Multi-user software
Multi-user software is software that allows access by multiple users of a computer. Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered "multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39751 |
Sousaphone
The sousaphone () is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba. Created around 1893 by J.W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39752 |
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford who is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39753 |
Casimir Funk
Kazimierz Funk (; February 23, 1884 – November 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with being among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines".
After reading an article by the Dutchman Chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39760 |
Adnams
Adnams is a regional brewery founded in 1872 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, by George and Ernest Adnams. It produces cask ale and pasteurised bottled beers. Annual production is around 85,000 barrels.
In 2010, the company established the Copper House distillery for the production of gin, vodka and whisky.
Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761 |
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for "The Saturday ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39762 |
Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome, also referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. It is the ninth largest building in the world by usable volume. Locate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39763 |
Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac ( , , ; 29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously the Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
After attending the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39764 |
History of Sweden
The History of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12,000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8,000 BC and 6,000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39766 |
History of the European Union
The European Union is a geo-political entity covering a large portion of the European continent. It is founded upon numerous treaties and has undergone expansions and secessions that have taken it from 6 member states to 27, a majority of the states in Europe.
Apart from the ideas of fed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39767 |
Erich Honecker
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German politician who was the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). As party leader he worked closely with Moscow (which had a large army stationed in East Germany). He controlled the government of the German Dem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39768 |
IBM System i
The IBM System i was a line of midrange computer systems from IBM. The platform was first introduced as the AS/400 (Application System/400) in June 1988, with the operating system being called OS/400. In 2000, it was renamed to the eServer iSeries (with the 400 sometimes added). As part of IBM's re-brandi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39769 |
IBM System p
The System p, formerly known as RS/6000, was IBM's RISC/UNIX-based server product line.
In April 2008, IBM announced a rebranding of the System p and its unification with the System i platform. The resulting product line is called IBM Power Systems.
RS/6000 was originally a line of workstations and serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39770 |
Cape Cod Canal
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately canal traverses the narrow neck of land joining Cape Cod to the state's mainland. Most o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39772 |
Optical rotation
Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about the optical axis of linearly polarized light as it travels through certain materials. Circular birefringence and circular dichroism are the manifestati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39774 |
Denial-of-service attack
In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. Denial of service is typically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39776 |
Simplex
In geometry, a simplex (plural: simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions.
For example,
Specifically, a "k"-simplex is a "k"-dimensional polytope which is the convex hull of its "k" + 1 vertices.
More formally, suppose the "k" + 1 points f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39781 |
N-sphere
In mathematics, an -sphere is a topological space that is homeomorphic to a "standard" -"sphere", which is the set of points in -dimensional Euclidean space that are situated at a constant distance from a fixed point, called the "center". It is the generalization of an ordinary sphere in the ordinary three-di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39782 |
Hypercube
In geometry, a hypercube is an "n"-dimensional analogue of a square () and a cube (). It is a closed, compact, convex figure whose 1-skeleton consists of groups of opposite parallel line segments aligned in each of the space's dimensions, perpendicular to each other and of the same length. A unit hypercube's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39783 |
Rotation
A rotation is a circular movement of an object around a center (or point) of rotation. A three-dimensional object can always be rotated about an infinite number of imaginary lines called "rotation axis" ( ). If the axis passes through the body's center of mass, the body is said to rotate upon itself, or spin.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39789 |
3-sphere
In mathematics, a 3-sphere, or glome, is a higher-dimensional analogue of a sphere. It may be embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space as the set of points equidistant from a fixed central point. Analogous to how the boundary of a ball in three dimensions is an ordinary sphere (or 2-sphere, a two-dimensional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39792 |
Sailor Moon (character)
, also known as , is a fictional superheroine who is the main protagonist and title character of the "Sailor Moon" manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi. She is introduced in chapter #1, "Usagi – Sailor Moon" (originally published in Japan's "Nakayoshi" magazine on December 28, 1991), as a car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39803 |
Nature versus nurture
The nature versus nurture debate involves whether human behavior is determined by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or by a person's genes. The alliterative expression "nature and nurture" in English has been in use since at least the Elizabethan period and goes back to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39807 |
Dub, King of Scotland
Dub mac Maíl Coluim (Modern Gaelic: "Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim"), sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm, called Dén, "the Vehement" and Niger, "the Black" (born c. 928 - died 967) was king of Alba. He was son of Malcolm I and succeeded to the throne when Indulf was killed in 962.
While later chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39816 |
William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton MRIA (4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865)
was an Irish mathematician, Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin, and Royal Astronomer of Ireland. He worked in both pure mathematics and mathematics for physics. He made important contributions to optics, cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39817 |
Sigismund II Augustus
Sigismund II Augustus (, ; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian dynasty.
Sigis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39824 |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science. Its primary mission is research into and development of fusion as an energy source.
PPPL grew out of the top secret Cold War project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39825 |
Battering ram
A battering ram is a siege engine that originated in ancient times and was designed to break open the masonry walls of fortifications or splinter their wooden gates. In its simplest form, a battering ram is just a large, heavy log carried by several people and propelled with force against an obstacle; th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39831 |
Charles I of Anjou
Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–85) and Forcalquier (1246–48, 1256–85) in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Anjou and Maine (1246–85) in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39833 |
Correlation does not imply causation
In statistics, the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them. The idea that "correlation implies causa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39834 |
Jan Bos
Jan Bos (born 29 March 1975) is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.
In 1998 Bos both became the world champion sprint and won the silver medal that year in the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39838 |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corpor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39842 |
Roman villa
A Roman villa was typically a country house for wealthy people built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas near Rome: the "villa urbana", a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another city) for a night or two; and the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39845 |
Outboard motor
An outboard motor is a propulsion system for boats, consisting of a self-contained unit that includes engine, gearbox and propeller or jet drive, designed to be affixed to the outside of the transom. They are the most common motorized method of propelling small watercraft. As well as providing propulsio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39846 |
Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu (; ; – June 1, 1946) was a Romanian soldier and authoritarian politician who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as the Prime Minister and "Conducător" during most of World War II. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and executed.
A Romanian Army career officer who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37261 |
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, , Hon. FAIA (; 9 April 191829 November 2008) was a Danish architect. He was most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia, completed in 1973. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37262 |
Ferdinand I of Romania
Ferdinand (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed "Întregitorul" ("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 1914 until 1927. Although a member of the Swabian branch of Germany's ruling House of Hohenzollern, Ferdinand sided against the Central Powers in World W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37266 |
Cephalic index
The cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width (biparietal diameter or BPD, side to side) of the head of an organism (human or animal) multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length (occipitofrontal diameter or OFD, front to back). The index is also used to categorize animals, es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37268 |
Wall Street
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of New York City. It runs crosstown between Broadway on the west to South Street, at the East River, on the east. The term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37274 |
Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress, former fashion model, and television personality. Her most recognized roles are Carmen Ibanez in "Starship Troopers" (1997), Kelly Van Ryan in "Wild Things" (1998) and Bond girl Christmas Jones in "The World Is Not Enough" (1999). She... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37275 |
Rubidium–strontium dating
The rubidium-strontium dating method is a radiometric dating technique used by scientists to determine the age of rocks and minerals from the quantities they contain of specific isotopes of rubidium (87Rb) and strontium (87Sr, 86Sr).
Development of this process was aided by German chemists O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37277 |
Galago
Galagos , also known as bush babies, or nagapies (meaning "night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small nocturnal primates native to continental, sub-Sahara Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae). They are considered a sister group of the Lorisidae.
According to some accounts, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37278 |
Peg solitaire
Peg solitaire (or Solo Noble) is a board game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. Some sets use marbles in a board with indentations. The game is known simply as Solitaire in the United Kingdom where the card games are called Patience. It is also referred to as Brainvita (esp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37281 |
Klondike (solitaire)
Klondike is a solitaire card game. In the U.S. and Canada, Klondike is the best-known solitaire card game, to the point that the term "solitaire", in the absence of additional qualifiers, typically refers to Klondike. Equally in the UK, it is often just known as "patience". Elsewhere the game is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37282 |
Brain tumor
A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain. There are two main types of tumors: cancerous (malignant) tumors and benign (non-cancerous) tumors. Cancerous tumors can be divided into primary tumors, which start within the brain, and secondary tumors, which have spread from elsewhere, know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37284 |
Batch processing
Computerized batch processing is the running of "jobs that can run without end user interaction, or can be scheduled to run as resources permit."
The term "batch processing" originates in the traditional classification of methods of production as job production (one-off production), batch production ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37285 |
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present, as well as its derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. This Saturday-morning ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37287 |
Spectrum of a ring
In algebra and algebraic geometry, the spectrum of a commutative ring "R", denoted by formula_1, is the set of all prime ideals of "R". It is commonly augmented with the Zariski topology and with a structure sheaf, turning it into a locally ringed space. A locally ringed space of this form is called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37291 |
List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists
A number of notable people have considered themselves Unitarians, Universalists, and following the merger of these denominations in the United States and Canada in 1961, Unitarian Universalists. Additionally, there are persons who, because of their writing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37292 |
Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or incarcerated, and results in the conviction or acquittal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37297 |
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India spoken by nearly 2.88% of Indians. Malayalam has official language status in the state of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37299 |
Stevie Case
Stevana "Stevie" Case (born September 7, 1976) is an American businesswoman and executive, former video game designer and former competitive "Quake" player. Under the in-game name KillCreek, she was known as one of the first well-known female esports players, gaining recognition for beating "Quake" designe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37301 |
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (; ; 26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition of philosophy. He is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism.
In "Being and Time" (1927), Heidegger addresses the meaning of "being" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37304 |
Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment.
The term is used by persons or groups challenging the legitimacy of the detention of a prisoner. Supporters of the term define a political prisoner as someone who is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37307 |
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