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Rosary
The Holy Rosary (; , in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), also known as the Dominican Rosary, or simply the Rosary, refers to a form of prayer psalter used in the Catholic Church and to the string of knots or beads used to count the component prayers. When referring to the prayer, the word i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46398 |
Ionia
Ionia (; Ancient Greek: Ἰωνία /i.ɔː.ní.aː/, "Iōnía" or Ἰωνίη, "Iōníē") was an ancient region on the central part of the western coast of Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46401 |
Jane Seymour (actress)
Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is a British-American actress, best known for her performances in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" (1973); "Somewhere in Time" (1980); "East of Eden" (1981); "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1982 film); "" (1988); "W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46402 |
Passover Seder
The Passover Seder ( 'order, arrangement'; ) is a ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted throughout the world on the eve of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar (i.e., at the start of the 15th; a Hebrew day begins at sunset). The day falls in lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46403 |
Nisan
Nisan (or "Nissan"; , Standard "Nisan" Tiberian "Nîsān") in the Hebrew calendar is the first month of the ecclesiastical year and the seventh month (eighth, in leap year) of the civil year. The name of the month is an Akkadian language borrowing, although ultimately originates in Sumerian "nisag" "first fruits";... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46404 |
Shemini Atzeret
Shemini Atzeret (—"Eighth [day of] Assembly"; Sefardic/Israeli pron. "shemini atzèret"; Ashkenazic pron. "shmini-atsères") is a Jewish holiday. It is celebrated on the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei in the Land of Israel, and on the 22nd and 23rd outside the Land, usually coinciding with late ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46407 |
Magenta
Magenta () is a color which can vary from deep pink to saturated purple. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and blue. It is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing by an inkjet printer, along with yellow, black, and cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46408 |
Executive producer
Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Depending on the medium, the executive producer may be concerned with management accounting or associated with legal issues (like copyrights or royalties). In films, the executive producer genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46413 |
Crayon
A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing or drawing. A crayon made of pigment with a dry binder is a pastel; when made of oiled chalk, it is called an oil pastel. A grease pencil or Chinese marker (UK chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46415 |
West Ham United F.C.
West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stratford, East London. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club play at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home the Boleyn Ground in 2016.
The club was founded in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46417 |
Substantia nigra
The substantia nigra (SN) is a basal ganglia structure located in the midbrain that plays an important role in reward and movement. "Substantia nigra" is Latin for "black substance", reflecting the fact that parts of the substantia nigra appear darker than neighboring areas due to high levels of neuro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46425 |
Basil II
Basil II Porphyrogenitus (; – 15 December 1025), nicknamed the Bulgar Slayer (), was the senior Byzantine Emperor for almost 50 years (10 January 976 – 15 December 1025), having been a junior colleague to other emperors since 960. He and his brother Constantine were named as co-rulers before their father Roma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46426 |
Inspector Clouseau
Inspector Jacques Clouseau () is a fictional character in Blake Edwards's farcical "The Pink Panther" series. He is portrayed by Peter Sellers in the original series, and also by Alan Arkin in the 1968 film "Inspector Clouseau" and, in a cameo, by Roger Moore (credited as Turk Thrust II) in the 1983... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46427 |
Assassination market
An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they "guess" the date accurately. This would incentivise assassination of individuals bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46428 |
Fun
Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment". Although particularly associated with recreation and play, fun may be encountered during work, social functions, and in daily life. There are psychological and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46433 |
Order of Assassins
The Assassins (Persian "Ḥashashiyan", Arabic "Ḥashīshiyya" or "Ḥashīshiyyīn", singular "Ḥashīshī") were a Nizari Isma'ili sect who lived in the mountains of Persia and in Syria between 1090 and 1275. During that time, they held a strict subterfuge policy throughout the Middle East through the covert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46435 |
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book "Syntactic Structures" as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis "The Logical Structure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46438 |
Philosophy of mathematics
The philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that studies the assumptions, foundations, and implications of mathematics. It aims to understand the nature and methods of mathematics, and find out the place of mathematics in people's lives. The logical and structural nature of math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439 |
Humour
Humour (British English) or humor (American English; see spelling differences) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: "humor", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38407 |
Group sex
Group sex is sexual behavior involving more than two participants. Participants in group sex can be of any sexual orientation or genders. Any form of sexual activity can be adopted to involve more than two participants, but some forms have their own names.
Group sex most commonly takes place in a private se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38410 |
Regression testing
Regression testing (rarely "non-regression testing") is re-running functional and non-functional tests to ensure that previously developed and tested software still performs after a change. If not, that would be called a "regression". Changes that may require regression testing include bug fixes, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38411 |
Hesse
Hesse (, also , ) or Hessia (, ; ), officially the State of Hesse (), is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest metropolitan area is Frankfurt am Main.
With an area of 21,000 square kilometers and a population of just over six million it ranks seventh and fift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38412 |
Activation energy
In chemistry and physics, activation energy is the energy which must be provided to a chemical or nuclear system with potential reactants to result in: a chemical reaction, nuclear reaction, or various other physical phenomena.
The activation energy ("E"a) of a reaction is measured in joules per mol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38413 |
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (, , commonly and officially shortened to NRW) is the most populous of the 16 states of Germany.
North Rhine-Westphalia is located in western Germany covering an area of , which makes it the fourth-largest state. Apart from the city-states it is also the most densely popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38414 |
Electrode potential
Electrode potential, "E", in chemistry or electrochemistry, according to an IUPAC definition, is the electromotive force of a cell built of two electrodes:
The SHE is defined to have a potential of 0 V, so the signed cell potential from the above setup is
The SHE (Standard Hydrogen Electrode) is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38415 |
Erich Hückel
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896, Berlin – February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:
Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. He studied physics and mathematics from 1914 to 1921 at the University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38418 |
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named for its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest (approximately $ million in today's dollar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38420 |
Plotinus
Plotinus (; , "Plōtinos"; – 270) was a major Hellenistic philosopher who lived in Roman Egypt. In his philosophy, described in the "Enneads", there are three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas, who was of the Platonic tradition. Historians of the 19th century in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38422 |
Bikram Yoga
Bikram Yoga is a system of hot yoga, a type of yoga as exercise, devised by Bikram Choudhury, that became popular in the early 1970s. Classes consist of a fixed sequence of 26 postures, practised in a room heated to with a humidity of 40%, intended to replicate the climate of India. The room is fitted with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38424 |
Deer
Deer are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer, and the chital; and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer (caribou), the roe deer, and the moose. Female reindeer, and male deer of all specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38428 |
Wool
Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, hide and fur clothing from bison, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.
Wool consists of protein together with a small percentage of lipids. In this regard it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38431 |
Half-reaction
A half reaction is either the oxidation or reduction reaction component of a redox reaction. A half reaction is obtained by considering the change in oxidation states of individual substances involved in the redox reaction.
Often, the concept of half reactions is used to describe what occurs in an elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38436 |
Type XXI submarine
Type XXI submarines were a class of German diesel–electric "Elektroboot" (German: "electric boat") submarines designed during the Second World War. One hundred and eighteen were completed, with four being combat ready. During the war only two were put into active service and went on patrols, but the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38441 |
Albert II of Germany
Albert the Magnanimous KG (10 August 139727 October 1439) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1437 until his death and member of the House of Habsburg. He was also King of Bohemia, elected King of Germany as Albert II, Duke of Luxembourg and, as Albert V, Archduke of Austria from 1404.
Albert wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38447 |
Affine transformation
In Euclidean geometry, an affine transformation, or an affinity (from the Latin, "affinis", "connected with"), is a geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism (but not necessarily distances and angles).
More generally, an "affine transformation" is an automorphism of an affine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38449 |
Oxidation state
The oxidation state, sometimes referred to as oxidation number, describes the degree of oxidation (loss of electrons) of an atom in a chemical compound. Conceptually, the oxidation state, which may be positive, negative or zero, is the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38452 |
Gravitational constant
The gravitational constant (also known as the universal gravitational constant, the Newtonian constant of gravitation, or the Cavendish gravitational constant), denoted by the letter , is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38454 |
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos (, ; ; November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38455 |
Space Shuttle program
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System (STS), was take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38458 |
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag; June 9, 1981) is an actress and filmmaker with dual Israeli and American citizenship. Prolific in film since a teenager, she has starred in blockbusters and also played psychologically troubled women in independent films, for which she has received various accol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38459 |
Fall back and forward
Fall back is a feature of a modem protocol in data communication whereby two communicating modems which experience data corruption (due to line noise, for example) can renegotiate with each other to use a lower-speed connection. Fall forward is a corresponding feature whereby two modems which hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38463 |
Psilocybin
Psilocybin ( ) is a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound produced by more than 200 species of mushrooms, collectively known as psilocybin mushrooms. The most potent are members of the genus "Psilocybe", such as "P. azurescens", "P. semilanceata", and "P. cyanescens", but psilocybin has also been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 |
Fidelio
Fidelio (; ), originally titled ("Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love"), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with the work premiering at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38475 |
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: "Fraintche-Comtè"; ; ; ; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2016, its population was 1,180,397.
From 1956 to 2015, the Franche-Comté was a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38476 |
Singer Corporation
Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then the Singer Company in 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38477 |
Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, yelling etc. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in which the vocal folds (vocal cords) are the primary sound source. (Other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38481 |
Carnival
Carnival is a Western Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occur during February or early March, during the period historically known as Shrovetide (or Pre-Lent). Carnival typically involves public celebrations, including events such as parades, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38483 |
List of Anuran families
This list of Anuran families shows all extant families of Anura. Anura is an order of animals in the class Amphibia that includes frogs and toads. More than 5,000 species are described in the order. The living anurans are typically divided into three suborders: Archaeobatrachia, Mesobatrachia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38486 |
Drummer
A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drums.
Most contemporary western bands that play rock, pop, jazz, or R&B music include a drummer for purposes including timekeeping and embellishing the musical timbre. The drummer's equipment includes a drum kit (or "drum set" or "trap set") which includes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38490 |
Genus
A genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38493 |
Frog
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (literally "without tail" in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" appeared in the early Triassic of Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their origins may extend furt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38498 |
Toad
Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.
A distinction between frogs and toads is not made in scientific taxonomy, but is common in popular culture (folk taxonomy), in which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38499 |
Knight's tour
A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. If the knight ends on a square that is one knight's move from the beginning square (so that it could tour the board again immediately, following the same path), the tour is closed; ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38501 |
Plesiochronous digital hierarchy
The plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) is a technology used in telecommunications networks to transport large quantities of data over digital transport equipment such as fibre optic and microwave radio systems. The term "plesiochronous" is derived from Greek "plēsios", meaning near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38512 |
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
In the 1980s, the telecommunications industry expected that digital services would follow much the same pattern as voice services did on the public switched telephone network, and conceived an end-to-end circuit switched service, known as Broadband Integrated Services Digi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38514 |
Lyrics
Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, as a "librettist". The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or impli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38518 |
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (born 1951) is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.
Viola grew up in Queens, New York, and West... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38522 |
Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety-six departments are in metropolitan France, and five are overseas department... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38523 |
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a contributing editor of "Reason" magazine.
Benford wrote the Galactic Center Saga scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38527 |
Adoption
Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents.
In many jurisdictions, the ado... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534 |
Synchronous optical networking
Synchronous optical networking (SONET) and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs). At low transmission rates data ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38536 |
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire pudding is a common English side dish, a baked pudding made from a batter of eggs, flour, and milk or water. It is a versatile food that can be served in numerous ways depending on the choice of ingredients, the size of the pudding, and the accompanying components of the dish. As a first co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38537 |
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unknown individuals rather than professional actors. Reality television came to prominence in the early 1990s with "Real World" and the early 2000s with the global succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38539 |
Multiplexer
In electronics, a multiplexer (or mux; spelled sometimes as multiplexor), also known as a data selector, is a device that selects between several analog or digital input signals and forwards it to a single output line. A multiplexer of formula_1 inputs has formula_2 select lines, which are used to select w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38542 |
Bubble fusion
Bubble fusion is the non-technical name for a nuclear fusion reaction hypothesized to occur inside extraordinarily large collapsing gas bubbles created in a liquid during acoustic cavitation. The more technical name is sonofusion.
The term was coined in 2002 with the release of a report by Rusi Taleyark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42739 |
Municipal Art Society
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS), founded in 1893, is a non-profit membership organization that protects New York's legacy spaces, encourages thoughtful planning and urban design, and advocates for inclusive neighborhoods across the five boroughs.
January 2010, MAS relocated from its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42741 |
Los Angeles Pierce College
Los Angeles Pierce College (Pierce College or Pierce) is a public community college in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It serves 22,000 students each semest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42745 |
Enterprise JavaBeans
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. EJB is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. An EJB web container provides a runtime environment for web related software components, including com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42750 |
J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski (; born July 17, 1954) is an American television and film screenwriter, producer and director, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Studio JMS and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series "Babylon 5" (1993–1998) and its spinoff "Crus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42751 |
Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
The sonoluminescence effect was first discovered at the University of Cologne in 1934 as a result of work on sonar. H. Frenzel and H. Schultes put an ultrasound transducer in a tank of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42752 |
University of Cologne
The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was the sixth university to be established in Central Europe and, although it closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919, it is now one of the largest universities in Germany with more than 48,000 students. The Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42754 |
Murasaki Shikibu
Heian women were traditionally excluded from learning Chinese, the written language of government, but Murasaki, raised in her erudite father's household, showed a precocious aptitude for the Chinese classics and managed to acquire fluency. She married in her mid-to late twenties and gave birth to a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42758 |
Java Transaction API
The Java Transaction API (JTA), one of the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) APIs, enables distributed transactions to be done across multiple X/Open XA resources in a Java environment. JTA is a specification developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 907. JTA provides for:
In the X/Open ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42759 |
History of Belarus
This article describes the history of Belarus. The Belarusian ethnos is traced at least as far in time as other East Slavs.
After an initial period of independent feudal consolidation, Belarusian lands were incorporated into the Kingdom of Lithuania, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later in the Polis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42761 |
Java Naming and Directory Interface
The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is a Java API for a directory service that allows Java software clients to discover and look up data and resources (in the form of Java objects) via a name. Like all Java APIs that interface with host systems, JNDI is independent of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42762 |
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (; from the Greek 'Αγία Σοφία, , "Holy Wisdom"; or "Sancta Sapientia"; ) is the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum ("Ayasofya Müzesi") in Istanbul, Turkey. It is famous for its large dome. Built in AD 537, during the reign ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42764 |
Chaz Bono
Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969) is an American writer, musician and actor. His parents are entertainers Sonny Bono and Cher.
Bono is a trans man. In 1995, while then identifying as a woman, and several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42765 |
Climbing wall
A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, usually used for indoor climbing, but sometimes located outdoors. Some are brick or wooden constructions, but on most modern walls, the material most often used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled into it. Recent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42766 |
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic (, ), also known as Old Church Slavic, or Old Slavic (), was the first Slavic literary language (autonym , ). It is also referred to as Paleo-Slavic ("Paleoslavic") or Palaeo-Slavic ("Palaeoslavic"), not to be confused with Proto-Slavic. It is often abbreviated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42768 |
Nordic Council
The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary co-operation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomous areas of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and the Åland Islands. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42780 |
History of Estonia
The history of Estonia forms a part of the history of Europe. Humans settled in the region of Estonia near the end of the last glacial era, beginning from around 8500 BC. Before German crusaders invaded in the early 13th century, proto-Estonians of ancient Estonia worshipped spirits of nature. Start... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42787 |
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech computer or speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems rend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42799 |
Nutella
Nutella (; ) is a brand of sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread. Nutella is manufactured by the Italian company Ferrero and was first introduced in 1964, although its first iteration dates to 1963.
Pietro Ferrero owned a bakery in Alba, an Italian town known for the production of hazelnuts. In 1946, he sold the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42801 |
Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born November 1, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and painter. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music for a year as a percussionist before leaving to pursue a music career. She achieved critical and commercial success with her firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42802 |
Video CD
Video CD (abbreviated as VCD, and also known as Compact Disc Digital Video) is a home video format and the first format for distributing films on standard optical discs. The format was widely adopted in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, superseding the VHS and Betamax systems in the regions until DVD-Video ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42803 |
Cyclone
In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure. Cyclones are characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure. The largest low-pressure systems are polar vortices and extratropical cyclones of the largest scale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42806 |
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content. It has a carbon content around 20-35% percent. It is mined all around the world, is used almost exclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42808 |
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (; ), also named Chuqi Yapu (Chuquiago) in Aymara, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which is formed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42821 |
Illative case
Illative (abbreviated ; from Latin "illatus" "brought in") is, in the Finnish language, the Estonian language, the Lithuanian language, and the Hungarian language, one of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "into (the inside of)". An example from Hungarian is "a házba" (into the house, with "a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42837 |
Adessive case
An adessive case (abbreviated ; from Latin "adesse" "to be present (at)": "ad" "at" + "esse" "to be") is a grammatical case generally denoting location at, upon, or adjacent to the referent of the noun; the term is most frequently used in Uralic studies. In Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42838 |
Essive case
The essive case, or similaris case (abbreviated ) is one example of a grammatical case, an inflectional morphological process by which a form is altered or marked to indicate its grammatical function. The essive case on a noun can express it as a definite period of time during which something happens or du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42842 |
Translative case
The translative case (abbreviated ) is a grammatical case that indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of "becoming "X"" or "change to "X"".
In Finnish, it is the counterpart of the essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. It is also used for expressing "in (a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42844 |
Abessive case
In linguistics, abessive (abbreviated or ), caritive and privative (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun. In English, the corresponding function is expressed by the preposition "without" or by the suffix "-less."
The name "abessive" is derived from Lati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42846 |
Prolative case
The prolative case (abbreviated ), also called the vialis case (abbreviated ), prosecutive case (abbreviated ), traversal case, mediative case, or translative case, is a grammatical case of a noun or pronoun that has the basic meaning of "by way of" or "via".
In Finnish, the prolative case follows an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42849 |
Radio frequency
Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around . This is roughly between the upper limit of audio frequencies and the lower limit of infrared... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42852 |
Partitive case
The partitive case (abbreviated or more ambiguously ) is a grammatical case which denotes "partialness", "without result", or "without specific identity". It is also used in contexts where a subgroup is selected from a larger group, or with numbers.
In the Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42853 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 adventure epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. The film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943. The cast includes William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42856 |
Sudetenland
The Sudetenland (; ; Czech and ; ) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia from the time of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42858 |
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams that opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatises the life of Blanche DuBois, a Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42863 |
Java Message Service
The Java Message Service (JMS) API is a Java message-oriented middleware API for sending messages between two or more clients. It is an implementation to handle the producer–consumer problem. JMS is a part of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), and was defined by a specification devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42866 |
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