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Reptilia (zoo)
Reptilia is Canada's largest indoor reptile zoo, with of indoor exhibits featuring over 250 reptiles, amphibians and arachnids. It is accredited by CAZA.
Currently there are two Ontario locations, one in Vaughan and one in Whitby.
The original Reptilia zoo was established in Vaughan; it is housed in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37308 |
Federal Standard 1037C
Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.
This document provides federal departme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37310 |
Bruce Lee
Lee Jun-fan (; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), known professionally as Bruce Lee (), was a Hong Kong American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37313 |
Cypherpunk
A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37314 |
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. CAD software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communications through documentation, and to create a da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37315 |
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such as students, researchers and professors instead of professional journ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37316 |
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story fixup by American writer Ray Bradbury, which chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37320 |
Aeneid
The Aeneid ( ; ) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37322 |
Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (; 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman senator and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar. After being adopted by an uncle, he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, but subsequently returned to his birth name.
Brutus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37325 |
Circus Maximus
The Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest or largest circus; Italian: Circo Massimo) is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37328 |
Aldehyde
An aldehyde is a compound containing a functional group with the structure −CHO, consisting of a carbonyl center (a carbon double-bonded to oxygen) with the carbon atom also bonded to hydrogen and to an R group, which is any generic alkyl or side chain. The group—without R—is the aldehyde group, also known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37329 |
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in transforming physical chemistry into a rigorous inductive sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37332 |
Drought
A drought or drouth is an event of prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric (below-average precipitation), surface water or ground water. A drought can last for months or years, or may be declared after as few as 15 days. It can have a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37335 |
Proleptic Julian calendar
The proleptic Julian calendar is produced by extending the Julian calendar backwards to dates preceding AD 8 when the quadrennial leap year stabilized. The leap years that were actually observed between the implementation of the Julian calendar in 45 BC and AD 8 were erratic: see the Julian c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37336 |
Paul Lansky
Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American composer.
Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studying with George Perle and Milton Babbitt, among others. He received his Ph.D. i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37340 |
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemical engineer, chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. "New Scientist" called him one of the 20 greatest scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37342 |
Shrapnel shell
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried many individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually. They relied almost entirely on the shell's velocity for their lethality. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37345 |
Dominus Iesus
Dominus Iesus () is a declaration by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (known as the "Holy Office"), approved in a Plenary meeting of the Congregation and signed by its then Prefect, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, and of its then Secretary, Archbishop Tarcisio Cardinal B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37348 |
Liberation theology
Liberation theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and socio-economic analyses, based on far-left politics, particularly Marxism, that emphasizes "social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples." In the 1950s and the 1960s, liberation theology was the political pra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37349 |
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (), known as CERN (; ; derived from the name ), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border and has 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37351 |
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (, , ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
His initial voyage to India (1497–1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45080 |
The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters is a 1951 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, in which American secret agents battle parasitic invaders from outer space. It was originally serialized in "Galaxy Science Fiction" (September, October, November 1951).
The novel evokes a sense of paranoia an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45081 |
Cad (disambiguation)
CAD is a commonly used acronym for computer-aided design.
CAD or Cad may also refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45082 |
Henry V (play)
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled "The Cronicle Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45084 |
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. Terrestrial biodiversity is usually greater near the equator, which is the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity. Biodiversity is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45086 |
Karuta
are Japanese playing cards. Playing cards were introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders during the mid-16th century. These early decks were used for trick-taking games. The earliest indigenous "karuta" was invented in the town of Miike in Chikugo Province at around the end of the 16th century. The Miike Karut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45089 |
Hermione Granger
Hermione Jean Granger ( ) is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series. She first appears in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", as a new student on her way to Hogwarts. After Harry and Ron save her from a mountain troll in the girls' restroom, she becomes best friends wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45100 |
Pope Nicholas III
Pope Nicholas III (; c. 1225 – 22 August 1280), born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 November 1277 to his death.
He was a Roman nobleman who had served under eight popes, been made Cardinal-Deacon of "St. Nicola in Carcere Tulliano" by P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45104 |
Agrigento
Agrigento (; or ; ;
Agrigento was founded on a plateau overlooking the sea, with two nearby rivers, the Hypsas and the Akragas, and a ridge to the north offering a degree of natural fortification. Its establishment took place around 582–580 BC and is attributed to Greek colonists from Gela, who named it "A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45105 |
Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort (, in the films) is a sobriquet for Tom Marvolo Riddle, a fictional character and the main antagonist in J. K. Rowling's series of "Harry Potter" novels. Voldemort first appeared in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which was released in 1997. Voldemort appears either in person ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45106 |
Madeira wine
Madeira is a fortified wine made on the Portuguese Madeira Islands, off the coast of Africa. Madeira is produced in a variety of styles ranging from dry wines which can be consumed on their own as an aperitif to sweet wines usually consumed with dessert. Cheaper cooking versions are often flavoured with s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45107 |
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (, ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45109 |
Lunokhod programme
Lunokhod (, "Moonwalker") was a series of Soviet robotic lunar rovers designed to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1977. Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.
The 1969 Lunokhod 1A (Lunokhod 0, Lunokhod No. 201) was destroyed during launch, the 1970 "Luno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45114 |
Lunokhod 1
Lunokhod 1 (Луноход, "moon walker" in Russian; "Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203", "vehicle 8ЕЛ№203") was the first of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The "Luna 17" spacecraft carried "Lunokhod 1" to the Moon in 1970. "Lunokhod 1" was the first remote-contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45116 |
Lunokhod 2
Lunokhod 2 (, "moon walker") was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod programme.
The "Luna 21" spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, "Lunokhod 2", in January 1973. The primary objectives of the mission wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45119 |
Alans
The Alans () were an Iranian nomadic pastoral people of antiquity.
The name "Alan" is an Iranian dialectal form of "Aryan". Possibly related to the Massagetae, the Alans have been connected by modern historians with the Central Asian Yancai and Aorsi of Chinese and Roman sources, respectively. Having migrated w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45121 |
Moors
The Moors were the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs.
Moors are not a distinct or self-defined people, and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45127 |
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Scottish novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternatingly slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat (a European water vole), Toad, and Badger. They live in a pastoral version of Edwardian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45133 |
Discourse
Discourse (from ) generally denotes written and spoken communications, though its usage differs between various disciplines and approaches. For instance, in semantics and discourse analysis, it is a conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication. Moreover, in rega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45134 |
Georg Major
George Major (April 25, 1502 – November 28, 1574) was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in Nuremberg and died at Wittenberg.
At the age of nine Major was sent to Wittenberg, and in 1521 entered the university there. When Cruciger returned to Wittenberg in 1529, Major was app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45138 |
Chennai
Chennai (, ), also known as Madras ( or , the official name until 1996), is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal, it is a primary cultural, economic and educational centre of south India. According to the 2011 Indian census, it is the sixth-most p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45139 |
Shavian alphabet
The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45144 |
Hubble sequence
The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1926. It is often colloquially known as the Hubble tuning fork diagram because the shape in which it is traditionally represented resembles a tuning fork. In June 2019, however, citizen scientists thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45145 |
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kiloby... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45146 |
8-bit computing
The term '8-bit' is also applied to the character sets that could be used on computers with 8-bit bytes, the most well known being various forms of extended ASCII, including the ISO/IEC 8859 series of national character sets especially Latin 1 for English and Western European languages.
The IBM System... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45148 |
Elián González
Elián González Brotons (born December 6, 1993) is a Cuban citizen who became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Cuba and in Miami, and Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45154 |
Tatian
Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian, Tatian the Assyrian,
(; ; ; ; c. 120 – c. 180 AD) was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45158 |
Olivine
The mineral olivine () is a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg2+, Fe2+)2. Thus, it is a type of nesosilicate or orthosilicate. The primary component of the Earth's upper mantle, it is a common mineral in Earth's subsurface, but weathers quickly on the surface.
The ratio of magnesium to iron varies b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45159 |
Peridot
Peridot ( or ) (sometimes called chrysolite) is gem-quality olivine and a silicate mineral with the formula of (Mg, Fe)2SiO4. As peridot is a magnesium-rich variety of olivine (forsterite), the formula approaches Mg2SiO4. Its green color is dependent on the iron contents within the structure of the gem. Perido... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45162 |
Microcline
Microcline (KAlSi3O8) is an important igneous rock-forming tectosilicate mineral. It is a potassium-rich alkali feldspar. Microcline typically contains minor amounts of sodium. It is common in granite and pegmatites. Microcline forms during slow cooling of orthoclase; it is more stable at lower temperatures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45166 |
Anorthoclase
The mineral anorthoclase ((Na,K)AlSi3O8) is a crystalline solid solution in the alkali feldspar series, in which the sodium-aluminium silicate member exists in larger proportion. It typically consists of between 10 and 36 percent of KAlSi3O8 and between 64 and 90 percent of NaAlSi3O8.
Anorthoclase is an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45167 |
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group. Rather than referring to a particular mineral with a specific chemical composition, plagioclase is a continuous solid solution series, more properly known as the plagioclase feldspar series (from the Ancient G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45168 |
The Godfather (novel)
The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for "The Godfather" is ""For Anthony C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45169 |
Elvish languages (Middle-earth)
J. R. R. Tolkien constructed many Elvish languages. These were the languages spoken by the tribes of his Elves. Tolkien was a philologist by profession, and spent much time on his constructed languages. The Elvish languages were the first thing he imagined for his secondary world of Mid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45170 |
Carabinieri
The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Arm of Carabineers"; previously "Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali", "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic policing duties. It is one of Italy's main law enforcement agencies, alongside the Pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45173 |
Negative binomial distribution
In probability theory and statistics, the negative binomial distribution is a discrete probability distribution that models the number of failures in a sequence of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli trials before a specified (non-random) number of successes (denoted "r") o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45177 |
Process (computing)
In computing, a process is the instance of a computer program that is being executed by one or many threads. It contains the program code and its activity. Depending on the operating system (OS), a process may be made up of multiple threads of execution that execute instructions concurrently.
Whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45178 |
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over a 61-year concert career, changing the format and repertoire of the piano recit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45181 |
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (; ; born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema. With "The Apartment", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45185 |
Paul Muni
Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor who grew up in Chicago. Muni was a five-time Academy Award nominee, with one win. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater. During the 1930s, he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45188 |
Brandy
Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine. Brandy generally contains 35–60% alcohol by volume (70–120 US proof) and is typically consumed as an after-dinner digestif. Some brandies are aged in wooden casks. Others are coloured with caramel colouring to imitate the effect of aging, and some are produced usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45189 |
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Weber was born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck, the eldest of the three children of and his second wife, G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45190 |
Lp space
In mathematics, the spaces are function spaces defined using a natural generalization of the -norm for finite-dimensional vector spaces. They are sometimes called Lebesgue spaces, named after Henri Lebesgue , although according to the Bourbaki group they were first introduced by Frigyes Riesz . spaces form an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45194 |
Injective function
In mathematics, an injective function (also known as injection, or one-to-one function) is a function that maps distinct elements of its domain to distinct elements of its codomain. In other words, every element of the function's codomain is the image of "at most" one element of its domain. The term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45196 |
Inverse element
In abstract algebra, the idea of an inverse element generalises the concepts of negation (sign reversal) (in relation to addition) and reciprocation (in relation to multiplication). The intuition is of an element that can 'undo' the effect of combination with another given element. While the precise de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45199 |
Universal algebra
Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, not examples ("models") of algebraic structures.
For instance, rather than take particular groups as the object of study, in universal algebra one takes the class of groups a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45200 |
Submarine communications cable
A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried telegraphy traffic, establishing the first insta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45206 |
Communications satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. Communications satellites are used for television,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45207 |
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Cripple Creek is the Statutory City that is the county seat of Teller County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,189 at the 2010 United States Census. Cripple Creek is a former gold mining camp located southwest of Colorado Springs near the base of Pikes Peak. The Cripple Creek ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45210 |
Belarusian language
Belarusian (; ) is an East Slavic language spoken by Belarusians. It is the official language of Belarus, along with Russian. It is additionally spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine by Belarusian minorities in those countries.
Before Belarus gained independence from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45213 |
Ali G
Alistair Leslie Graham, better known as Ali G, is a satirical fictional character created and performed by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's "The 11 O'Clock Show", and subsequently as the title character of Channel 4's "Da Ali G Show" in 2000 and on HBO in 2003–2004, he is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45214 |
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer. He is known for his creation and portrayal of several fictional satirical characters, including Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Aladeen. Like his idol Peter Sellers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45218 |
Staines-upon-Thames
Staines-upon-Thames, formerly Staines, is a town on the River Thames in Surrey, England, within the borough of Spelthorne. At or near the Roman settlement of Pontibus, it became Stanes and then Staines. The town lies within the historic county boundaries of Middlesex, being transferred to Surrey in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45220 |
Asparagus
Asparagus, or garden asparagus, folk name sparrow grass, scientific name Asparagus officinalis, is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus "Asparagus". Its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable.
It was once classified in the lily family, like the related "Allium" species, onions and garlic. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46319 |
Flatfish
A flatfish is a member of the ray-finned demersal fish order Pleuronectiformes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. In many species, both eyes lie on one side of the head, one or the other migrating through or around the head during development. Some species face t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46331 |
Flat tax
A flat tax (short for flat-rate tax) is a tax system with a constant marginal rate, usually applied to individual or corporate income. A true flat tax would be a proportional tax, but implementations are often progressive and sometimes regressive depending on deductions and exemptions in the tax base. There a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46334 |
Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or songbirds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching, am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46336 |
Independent city
An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a province).
In the Holy Roman Empire, and to a degree in its successor states the German Confederation and the German Empire, so-called "free imperial cities"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46341 |
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained International fame for writing, directing and starring in the film "Life Is Beautiful" (1997), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Oscars Ceremony (the film al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46344 |
Arthur Treacher's
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips is a fast food seafood restaurant chain. At the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s, it had about 800 stores. As of November 2019, there are believed to be only seven stand-alone locations remaining: three in Ohio, two in New York, and two in New Jersey (one of whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46345 |
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. His two main series are the Alex Benedict series and the Priscilla Hutchins series.
McDevitt's first published s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46356 |
Sashimi
The word "sashimi" means "pierced body", i.e. "刺身" = "sashimi", where 刺 し = "sashi" (pierced, stuck) and 身 = "mi" (body, meat). This word dates from the Muromachi period and was possibly coined when the word "切る" = "kiru" (cut), the culinary step, was considered too inauspicious to be used by anyone other than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46360 |
Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly referred to as The Lord Edward. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved from an early age in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46373 |
Diatom
Diatoms ("diá-tom-os" 'cut in half', from "diá", 'through' or 'apart'; and the root of "tém-n-ō", 'I cut'.) are a major group of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a significant portion of the Earth's biomass: they generate about 20 to 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 |
Perkin Warbeck
Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne. Warbeck claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower". Richard, were he alive, would have been the rightful claimant to the throne, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46375 |
Monmouth
Monmouth ( , ; meaning "town on the Monnow") is the historic county town of Monmouthshire in Wales and also a community. Situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, of the border with England. The town is northeast of Cardiff, and west of London. It is within the Monmouthshire local authority, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46376 |
Edward III of England
Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377) also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his fat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46377 |
Aquitaine
Aquitaine ( , , ; ; ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: "Aguiéne"), archaic "Guyenne"/"Guienne" (), is a historical region of southwestern France and a former administrative region of the country. Since 1 January 2016 it has been part of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is situated in the far southwest corner of Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46378 |
East Anglia
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England. The area included has varied but the legally defined NUTS 2 statistical unit comprises the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, including the City of Peterborough unitary authority area. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46379 |
Coaxial cable
Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced ) is a type of electrical cable consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by a concentric conducting shield, with the two separated by a dielectric (insulating material); many coaxial cables also have a protective outer sheath or jacket. The term "coaxial" refers to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46380 |
Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck ( , ; – 9 July 1441) was a painter from the County of Loon (present day Belgium) active in Bruges. He is one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art. The surviving records o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46381 |
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46383 |
Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (4 October 162612 July 1712) was an English statesman who was the second Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and son of the first Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
On his father's death Richard became Lord Protector but lacked authority. He tried to medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46386 |
Incubus (1966 film)
Incubus () is a 1966 American horror film directed by Leslie Stevens. Filmed entirely in the constructed language Esperanto, the film stars William Shatner, shortly before he would begin his work on "". The film's cinematography was by Conrad Hall, who went on to win three Academy Awards for his wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387 |
George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus; ; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.
George is the most recent British monarch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46389 |
Edward IV of England
Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions between 1455 and 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46390 |
Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald ("né" James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party politician to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then in 1929–31. From 1931 to 1935, he h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46391 |
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, (; 25 May 1713 – 10 March 1792) was a British nobleman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He was arguably the last important favourite in British politics. He was the first Prime Minister from Scotland following... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46393 |
Swansea
Swansea (; ) is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea () in Wales. The county area includes Swansea Bay () and the Gower Peninsula. Swansea's position on the southwest coast of Wales is within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46394 |
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of a ninja included espionage, deception, and surprise attacks. Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed dishonorable and beneath the honor of the samurai. Though "shinobi" proper, as specially trained spies and mercenaries, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46396 |
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